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“Profits at the North’s most popular visitor attraction, Titanic Belfast, increased last year by 57pc to £1.25m (€1.44m). New accounts show that the firm enjoyed the increase in pre-tax profits as revenues increased marginally from £11.6m to £11.9m in the 12 months to the end of March last year. The directors’ report states that in the […]

“The rise of fake news has helped further erode faith in the media, according to a new report that finds it is now the least trusted institution in Ireland. However, while trust in online-only media has plummeted, faith in traditional media has increased over the last two years, the study shows. The latest Edelman Ireland […]

Spend on digital advertising is set to overtake all other forms of marketing for the first time, according to eMarketer’s latest advertising spending forecasts. Over the next 12 months, digital advertising spending will leap by 12pc, to total €433m, equating to 51.4pc of total media advertising spending in Ireland. Mobile advertising efforts will represent 62pc […]

“Boulder Media, the Dublin-based animation firm behind the BBC’s reboot of Danger Mouse, has announced plans to take on additional staff as part of a move to a larger studio space. The company, which was acquired by US toymaker Hasbro for an undisclosed sum last year, currently employs 160 people in Ireland. The deal came […]

“One of Ireland’s biggest advertising agencies has confirmed that it has begun a boycott of YouTube advertising on behalf of some of Ireland’s largest brands. Core Media, which represents Heineken, AIB and the National Lottery among others, is pulling all campaigns over concerns that ads are appearing within videos that include extremist content. “Until we […]

“A restructuring at State broadcaster RTÉ involving significant job cuts and the sale of part of its Donnybrook grounds in Dublin 4 was outlined to staff this morning. RTÉ director general Dee Forbes confirmed this morning that there would be up to 250 job losses as part of a voluntary exit programme over a 24-month […]

“A NUMBER of major Irish advertisers are to consider suspending their ad campaigns with Google Ireland following claims that their ads are supporting extremist videos on YouTube. “We have outlined concerns and offered [clients] the choice of pausing their YouTube and Google Display Network activity should they wish to do so,” said Graham Taylor, chief […]

“RTE is to pay a polling firm over €266,988 over three years to research the public’s attitude towards its many services. Yesterday, the national broadcaster confirmed that Dublin firm Red C has beaten off competition from four other firms to secure the work. Red C won the work with a tender at the lower end […]

“Intel aims to make its second-biggest acquisition – a $15bn deal for Israel’s Mobileye – in a bold move to dominate technology for self-driving cars. The US chipmaker will pay $63.54 a share in cash for Jerusalem-based Mobileye, the firms said in a joint statement. Mobileye shares surged 30pc in premarket trading in New York. […]

Independent News & Media has decided to merge the newsrooms of its tabloid newspapers, the Herald and the Sunday World, into a seven-day operation in the latest restructuring of its editorial activities. The country’s biggest newspaper publisher also intends to appoint a tabloid platform editor, who will oversee both titles in their print and digital […]